Team Amazon was in a state of disarray after Greece, per Alejandro’s plan. Courtney, Sierra and even Cody had their sights on Duncan to eliminate. Though the latter was torn as the former two were too anti-Gwen for his liking. Duncan and Gwen still couldn’t have a chance to talk one on one with Courtney being around, and it looked like the team would prove to be highly dysfunctional to the merge.
Alejandro breathed a sigh of relief over this. Knowing that he would be eliminated by the trio of Izzy, Noah and Owen he was glad that there was enough discord on the Amazons so his team could hopefully keep winning until the merge. To further his chances, he encouraged Courtney to flirt with Tyler in order to distract her. Noah saw through this and was annoyed, but wasn’t about to start throwing challenges just to get rid of Alejandro. He hated economy class and instructed both Owen and Izzy to keep doing their best in challenges so they can hopefully eliminate the Spaniard during the merge. He also begun to act more arrogant being in the majority alliance, and he brushed aside Izzy’s warnings of himself turning into a “meanie” akin to Alejandro. Tyler was also growing ever closer to Alejandro and began to develop an intense dislike towards the bookworm, as well as towards Duncan for cheating.
After yet another plane crash, Chris instructed the teens that they had landed in Nevada where they were tasked to break into Area 51 to retrieve an alien artifact. First team to come back to the plane would win immunity. Duncan and Courtney argued the whole way, as Gwen kept her head down. Cody felt bad for her, but every time he tried to console her, Sierra would push him away, angering the tech geek.
This allowed Team Chris to reach Area 51 way before the others and split up per their respective alliances to find an artifact. Owen almost got captured during this, but did not as he listened to Noah’s instructions to be careful.
Eventually the Amazons got an artifact as well where Sierra dragged Cody off with her and Courtney to find an artifact, leaving Gwen with Duncan. Both were awkward at first, but vowed they would continue where that kiss left off and start a relationship, despite Courtney. Duncan also said he would volunteer himself for elimination if Gwen ever got voted off, saying that he hated that he was back in the game still and the duo went on to search.
However, they had gotten there far too late as Izzy had found an alien necklace and Team Chris made it back to the plane while the Amazons were not even ten minutes into their search. Chris lamented how boring the episode was and silently hoped that the elimination would prove shocking enough to salvage an otherwise dull episode.
Duncan and Gwen had privately gone to Cody and both asked him to vote for Courtney with them. However, the plan fizzled out with tech geek asking them both to please vote for Sierra with him instead, which angered Duncan. Both teens eventually were in a shouting match when Chris called them for elimination, and by then the outcome was secure.
Chris mused giving Duncan immunity again, but after a few strongly worded threats from Courtney and her legal team allowed Chef to push him off the plane, yet not before he shared one last kiss with Gwen. Cody hung his head as he saw Gwen’s saddened face when the delinquent left amid Courtney and Sierra’s cheers.